“Just because IRS auditors find there are additional
taxes due in their opinion doesn’t mean it is necessarily ever collected,” Susan Long, professor,
Syracuse University and co-director,Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) told CCH.
“When you speak about revenue,it is a more complicated picture to look at, since there may be appeals contesting the amount as well as issues of collectability once the amount is finally determined. But I don’t think anyone debates that if
IRS had more auditors it would be able to raise more money than those auditors cost.”